I still wear my old school games jersey when my daughters aren’t borrowing it. It must have been bought in about 1979. I have had my Barbour about as long.
I also wear (when my daughters haven’t got it) a very nice navy blue unidentifiable except by label Burberry gabardine coat made I think in the 1950s or 60s which belonged to my great-grandmother.
I don’t think I have ever had new jodhpurs, no need with lovely hand me downs.
Of course I’m not trying look smart either. Just as well really.
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Like my RM Williams boots, 3 new soles and at least 10 years (stupidly chucked them when I moved to the big smoke!).
A lot of my stuff came from Matalan. 
My oldest normally wearable item is a pair of 501s bought in Chicago in '99 but I still have cycling kit from my teenage year and the shirt I got married in still fits (but not the jacket - I have more muscles across my shoulders now). Probably have my Delaune cycling club racing top and TI Raleigh training kit in a drawer too - certainly still have the shoes I wore aged 15.
You inherited some nice kit.
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I have old Carhartt found in US. It doesn’t die. Newer Carhartt is considerbly better cut for women, but worse made, and often in less natural or less durable materials.
If you asked me for who I am I’d say Carhartt. I wish I’d been able to buy more of it.
Oh stop it, there are old men on this forum and you in you games kit …
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You’re not really trying, Ancient Mariner.
Come back when you’ve got stuff that’s 35 years old.
Some of us haven’t eaten yet! 
Yes, I have the same problems with my wedding suit from the early 80’s.
Actually, no, who am I kidding. I was a 26" waist then and 8 1/2 stone. Still have it though.
I was about 11 stone then, 30" waist, 40 inch chest. Now I’m 13 stone, 32" waist and 42 chest. Then my body was still cycle-racing whippet style, and I bulked up a lot more muscle since on shoulders and arms, lost a lot from my legs.
I do, like my motorcycle leather bought when I was 17, but it’s too worn to wear now. Once we got married I could only afford crappy clothes.
It was an absolutely cringeworthy watch. I actually don’t mind Madeley, he knows his strength is in being some kind of real life Alan Partridge and plays up to it, but he clearly felt he has to be some kind of Piers Morgan style presenter on GMB, and Morgan basically fashioned himself on a Jeremy Paxman/Jeremy Kyle combination. These debates GMB has are always a horrific watch as it’s a load of smug people trying to ‘land blows on the other side’ and looking absolutely smug while doing so, and it’s absolutely cringeworthy. I believe it will, with the passage of time come to be incredibly embarrassing, just as we look back on things from the 60s and 70s with their attitudes to race, gender and sexuality with horror at how smart and superior they thought they were while just showing themselves up to be small minded idiots. I’m sure he was doing exactly what his editors asked of him, but it was appalling that he couldn’t treat the subject with the importance and, well, dignity it deserves while still asking tough questions of the group and it’s actions.
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I didn’t see it myself Kirstea - just some of the reaction on social media etc. I just find it amazing, given the impact of Don’t Look Up, that media presenters still allow themselves to be seen as that stereotype of the idiotic interviewer.
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The similar purile comments as made on the daytime tv from the film dont look up. Leonardo dicaprio
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Maybe they didn’t get the satire?
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Why do ‘activists’ all look the same? Put one in a line up and they stand out a mile.
I did watch this interview and found her to very shallow and narrow in her piont of view.
It sounds like I was fortunate not to watch it. Did Richard Madeley challenge the group’s methods? Can’t argue with their message but don’t think their methods will gain them any support from the general public.
The issue was that this is pretty much all he did do, in a very surface level, childish way. At one point he actually said words to the effect of “we’ve had lots of people contact the program and not one of them agrees with what you’re doing” which is the equivalent of putting a remainer in the middle of the Brexit party conference and saying ‘no one wants you here, everyone thinks you’re wrong’, by it’s nature people aren’t going to be mass contacting them to say they agree, as Madeley knows. People did mass contact the show, or at least tag them on social media, about the abysmal way the interview was conducted and the disrespect shown to the guest and you can be sure that will be discussed in their editorial meeting, likely 10-1 to how many people contacted disagreeing with the methods, but whether there will be any mention of that on air will be another matter, probably it will be discussed positively as it got them their viral moment for that day.
With the demographic of that show and how it’s made it was never going to be anything but a disaster for the woman, it happens every time, not just on this issue but anything that skews away from the populist right wing opinion. There was barely mention of the actual issue and how important it is, only juvenile complaints about the methods, not even well thought out reasoned ones which would have been far better, which again, was all there was ever going to be on a show like that which is why they should have put a climate scientist on who just ignored every question about the methods and just spoke about the issue, or probably not gone on altogether.
I’m also not sure they want and need the public’s support. I’ve never really understood this argument. I’m not making a judgment on whether it’s the correct approach, but perhaps it is more of a carrot and stick thing. This group is the stick, allowing another group, whether existing and perhaps considerably better known, something, or a new group that will emerge, be the carrot. ‘Hearts and minds’ is only part of any battle, you also need action, and it’s not exactly like this is a new issue the public is just discovering, we’ve known for decades and have had many many carrots, some which have been marginally successful, many which haven’t, so perhaps a bit of the stick is what’s needed today, whether it has public support or not. I’m no expert on campaigning so maybe I’m talking nonsense but it does seem like public support is actually always required from every action depending on the specific situation. If these people are the bad cop then perhaps if/when a good cop steps up it will be more accepted by the public. Who knows, not I, I’m just rambling words on a Thursday morning 
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Complaining about ‘the methods’ of protesters drawing attention to climate/ecological breakdown is like complaining that the fire alarm woke you up.
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I don’t believe this. People are already stressed out worrying about the rising cost of food and heating, they are not going to be impressed at having to queue for much needed fuel to get to work. It would surely be better to inconvenience MPs at Westminster and encourage everyone to write/email politicians in order to hammer the message home. The young woman says “what are you going to do when there’s no food in the shops”. Well there won’t be if they keeping blockading fuel depots.
Easy to say when you won’t be affected. 